I’ve seen pictures of cars in British car magazines that refer to the model as being a “shooting brake”. What the heck is that?
The Shooting Break, or Break de Chasse as the French tend to call them, is a type of station wagon, but usually a three door design. Its purpose (well, allegedly) is to serve as some sort of fancy vehicle to take to a hunt. Mind you, just to GET there, and carry the assorted guns and whatnot.
The Lynx Eventer, based on the Jaguar XJ, is a particularly nice example.
Shooting Break- very sixties, very middle class; quite quaint. Haven’t heard it used for years. Brits tend to call station wagons ‘Estate Cars’ or ‘Estates’- one assumes again as a middle class affection- a car to travel round an estate- a large country section of land. Of course, one tends to find them more on ‘Estates’ - a large collection of public housing.